Emmett Shear
Emmett Shear
Emmett Shearis an Internet entrepreneur and investor. He is the co-founder of live video platforms Justin.tv and TwitchTV. He's also a part-time partner at venture capital firm Y Combinator. Shear is also co-founder of Kiko Software, the first AJAX-based online calendar. Shear graduated from Yale University in 2005 with a degree in computer science...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionBusinessman
CountryUnited States of America
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Given the growing popularity of pop culture conventions, many of them are selling out, leaving a lot of fans out in the dark and having to trawl the Internet for bits and pieces of news that relate to these events.
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There's no bigger gaming franchise on the console than 'Call of Duty', and we can't wait to see what the community can create with this new tool.
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Our app for Xbox 360 brings Twitch video to the television and into the living room of millions of Xbox Live members for the first time. The app will let every Xbox Live gamer find and watch streams of their favorite games from their couch.
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A goal of Twitch is to be wherever gamers are, whether it's on laptops and handheld devices or integrated into gaming consoles and software.
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The crucial people to get your product started for the first 6 months are not who will be using it 3 years later.
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People who are using your product and putting up with all these issues, means that they are not actually the biggest problems.
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Who you talk to is just as important as what questions you ask and what you pull away from it.
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Sales is this cure all for this problem. Get people to give you their credit card and I guarantee you they're actually interested.
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The one question you can't ask is, is this feature actually good or not?
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The question is, once you have this idea, is this enough? Is it something people would actually switch just to have?
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Users think they know what they want, but you get the horseless carriage effect where you're getting asked for a faster horse.
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You have this idea that you think is awesome. You want to have that broadest group you possibly can. You don't want to just talk to 1 type of person and learn that, you want to get familiar with the space.
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Who would you talk to? That is the first question for almost any startup that you need to answer. Who is my user and where am I going to find them?